UN sides with Syria’s Iran-backed regime, ignoring terror threats while condemning Israel’s lawful security presence.
The UN General Assembly once again showcased its ritualized hostility toward Israel, adopting yet another politically motivated resolution on Tuesday demanding that the Jewish state withdraw from the Golan Heights. The measure—pushed by Egypt on behalf of the Arab bloc—declared Israel’s control of the Golan “illegal,” ignoring decades of Syrian aggression, Iranian entrenchment, and the region’s critical security realities.
The resolution calls on Israel to retreat to the indefensible June 4, 1967 lines, despite the fact that Syria has been consumed by civil war, controlled in large part by Iran, Hezbollah, and foreign militias. Incredibly, the UN chose to lecture Israel rather than address the violent chaos and terror networks operating directly across the border.
The vote passed with 123 nations in favor, seven opposed, and 41 abstentions. Only a handful of courageous states—including the United States, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Tonga—stood with Israel against this annual display of UN groupthink.
These anti-Israel Golan resolutions appear every year, sponsored primarily by Syria and Arab states, and routinely pass due to automatic majorities that refuse to acknowledge strategic or moral reality.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, sharply condemned the vote, noting:
“The UN General Assembly once again proves how disconnected it is from reality.”
He added that instead of confronting the Iranian terror axis, Assad’s atrocities, or the activities of Hezbollah militias inside Syria, the UN obsesses over pressuring Israel to give up the very territory that protects its citizens from attack.
Danon was unequivocal:
“Israel will not return to the 1967 lines and will not abandon the Golan. Not now, not ever.”
The Golan Heights remain a vital shield for Israel’s northern communities—far too important to surrender to an Iranian-controlled Syria or to satisfy the political theatrics of the UN.
